6 months suspended prison sentence

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On Friday June 9, 2023, near Villeneuve (Gard), firefighters are called at the end of the day to intervene in a family in turmoil.

A thirty-year-old “agitated, but not violent”

On the day of the events, the defendant was 39 years old. His parents called for help because he was very agitated and very nervous. It was the firefighters who bore the brunt of his nervousness.

According to our colleagues Gard Objectiveat the court of Nimes (Gard), the individual, now aged 40 ans was present at his hearing on Wednesday October 2.

He knows that he is being prosecuted for acts of “outrage » and “violence against people entrusted with a public service mission”, as well as for “ damage to the emergency vehicle ».

From the start of the intervention, in the summer of 2023, the firefighters found themselves faced with a solid, agitated, very restless man. “They (the firefighters, editor’s note) had to get started at 7 to master it really,” explains Maître Émilie Vrignaud, criminal lawyer, who defends the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Gard.

A knife

For a reason that remains unknown to this day, the attacker suddenly exhibited a knifethe evening of the events. He then removed his clothes before approaching the firefighters and their van in a threatening manner.

It is with this bladed weapon that the individual seriously deteriorated the vehicle body firefighter intervention.

6 months

Faced with this excess of violence, the prosecutor Stéphane Bertrand requested an 8-month suspended prison sentence. The defense lawyer recalled that his client had had a “tendency schizophrenic and one impaired discernment at the time of the facts”. He pleaded the “ exemption from punishment ».

“The firefighters still did a job which is paid by the taxpayer »wanted to recall Me Pascal Casseville, defending the attacker.

A statement which was not followed by the judge. The vehement accused was sentenced to 6 months in prison with a two-year probationary suspensiona duty of care etto compensate the victims.

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